
All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett
Among America's greatest entertainers such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Ray Charles, and Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett alone is still here and at the top of his game. For the first time, All the Things You Are tells the incredible story of Bennett's life and sixty-year career, from his impoverished New York City childhood through his first chart-topping hits, from liberating a concentration camp to his civil rights struggles, from his devastating personal and career battles and addiction in the 1970's to his stunning comeback and emergence as a musical statesman, America's troubadour, role model and mentor, and unmatched interpreter of the American songbook.
- Takes a candid, unvarnished look at the amazing life of one of America's most enduring musical icons
- Based on dozens of author interviews with Bennett's family members, agents, musicians, composers and managers, and experts on the last fifty years of popular music
- Filled with stories involving leading figures and entertainers of the twentieth-century, including Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fiorello LaGuardia, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ray Charles, Dean Martin, Billie Holliday, and more
Whether you've been a Tony Bennett fan for decades or are just discovering him, this book will deepen your understanding of this hugely gifted entertainer and his music.
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Book details
- Author
- David Evanier
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 352
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- Biography & Autobiography › Entertainment & Performing Arts
Biography & Autobiography › Music - Topics
- celebrity biography · music history · jazz and pop singing · civil rights · addiction and recovery · American entertainment · comeback story
- ISBN-13
- 9780470520659 (Hardcover)9781630269210 (Paperback)
About the author
DAVID EVANIER is a former senior editor of The Paris Review and the author of fiction and nonfiction. His recent books include All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett, Woody: The Biography and Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin.
Evanier has received the Aga Khan Fiction Prize and the McGinniss-Ritchie Short Fiction Award. His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, and he has held fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo and the Wurlitzer Foundation.
When not writing, Evanier has taught creative writing at UCLA and Douglas College, and served as founding editor of the literary magazine Event.
David lives in Brooklyn.
